7 posts from October 2005

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Well OK, what I did was get my brother to get them to blog, but if A>B>C, then conversely, I got them to blog.

Talking about my best friend Chris Greene. Phenominal graphics design guy, uber-crazy mountain biker (he does 24 hour races and does them well to boot), consumer electronics guru (he's the reason why I'm completely sold on THX and will never go back) and amateur Looney Tunes voice guy (performs a mean Marvin The Martian if you are lucky enough to ever hear it).

Now he's working as an associate product category manager at Monster Cable. Whatever that title means, I don't think it comes close to conveying his area of responsibilities.

At any rate, at his request I got him and Robert Scoble (my brother) together to schedule Robert to speak about corporate blogging to Monster Cable.

I don't see Sony or Toshiba doing this as they would lose all that licensing revenue. Plus they make a decent business out of selling the base parts for equipment such as CD and DVD players, although if they are able to manufacture the fundamental mechanisms for new HDDVD players at a better value than anyone else, they will still make profit doing it.

Friday, October 21, 2005

On "How I met your mother", Neal Patrick Harris's (of Doogie Howser fame) character tells the Alyson Hannigan character about his silver and shiny shirt, "the similarity between women and fish is that both are attracted to shiny objects...Don't you read my blog?"

Friday, October 14, 2005

First off, yes, I've broken down and started calling Vista by it's proposed release name, Windows Vista (blech). Although I still don't like it and will refer to it as Windows Mountain View as much as possible. Why? I just like that name better.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Another example of the power of blogs. Based on conversations Greg Hughes and I have had on issues from each other's blogs, we have been talking on IM as well.

Yesterday, we started talking about VPN solutions. Problems we have had with Netscreen Remote, what Greg's company uses and why, etc.

The big thing that I learned was that Cisco's VPN client allows you to reroute IPSEC traffic over multiple ports as you see fit. This is important as a lot of places now block the methods that IPSEC usually uses to create a tunnel. However, these same places don't block port 80 (HTTP - how systems connect to web sites & web apps) and port 443 (HTTPS - used to communicate with secure web sites & apps). So a VPN client that can reroute IPSEC traffic over port 80 or 443 has a great advantage over those that can't.